Does anyone else get the feeling that, rather than listen to their own or their constituents' humanity and stop the genocide, the Powers That Be ™️ have decided to drop the last vestiges of pretence that the west is any kind of a democracy and go full fascist?
@fkamiah17 I don't know how to put this but they do this repeatedly over decades, but mostly people don't notice, or do notice but don't think democracy works anyway.
@fkamiah17 yeah true they've been gradually not even making a show of it any more. Like saying the quiet part out loud way more often. But often I think it's because I'm paying more attention now.
@fkamiah17 My view: The punters are the real monsters, we're just too polite to call them out for it. Even at the base layer, people voted for Scomo. They vote for Dutton. Every scumbag in politics has a whole engine of people voting, creating consent, people who want to hurt others and are just shitty human beings.
You meet them on Reddit. Go to r/australian and tell me the politicians aren't a reflection of the worst parts of our society. Democracy means their vote is equal to ours. How do you fix that?
The reddit thread I saw was full of people saying they'd missed work, interviews, all kinds of stuff. You'd absolutely assume you were at fault, and not the thousand dollar smart device failing to do something a $10 bedside clock can do, right? What a mess.
@timixretroplays@jpm There are lines for politeness. If someone is a Nazi you don't have to start the conversation in a measured, polite way. Likewise, if someone tries to just shrug and say even trivial software is impossible to write, that's not acceptable in my book. Software errors can and have killed people. Take the job seriously. "All software has bugs" is low, it's heartless, it's peak techbro, and I'm sick of hearing it.
And in the industry, it really just comes off as lazy. "No I won't write tests, the software is too trivial for that"; "No I'm not an engineer, I'm a programmer" or whatever they need to get the damn thing merged. Then their little "oopsie daisy" inevitably comes with some sage nodding and an "all software has bugs". Fucking no. Tell it to a judge. Why the industry abides this kind of rubbish is beyond me.
I already explained the main differences between most packaging formats, but now, it’s time to look at them in a more critical manner:
Performance benchmarks, missing features, advantages and drawbacks, for #Snaps, #Flatpak, #AppImage and regular good old packages:
@thelinuxEXP Something you didn't mention is offline installs. Basically it's very easy to create a USB / DVD / BD for all Debian packages based on a distro version, and you can apt install, which will ask you to insert the right media. I think RPM etc have the same feature.
Flatpak et al, I believe, are online only. You can technically put together a flatpak side-load thingie but I have no idea how plausible that is in reality.
Interesting talk about Git and games. The speaker misses the biggest issue with use Git in games and that is file locking. Two artist working on the same file is not mergable. The art in RtMI had to be source controlled in SVN, which I hated. Space wasn't an issue. I ran my own Git sever. File locking was.
@grumpygamer Often, the issue of file locking is secretly the issue that the scope of the file is too big. Even when merging "works", imagine your entire codebase is a single file, it would be a nightmare. Are there examples where having multiple files is actually not feasible, or is it simply that art tools are stubborn and do not provide them?
@cathywilcox Or the more vile: "Why is it so much more expensive for you folk?"; "If you worked hard there wouldn't be a gap."; "Colonisers did you a favour"
@neilhimself Hi Neil, love your work. Loved Sandman comic / show. Cast members of Goodness Gracious Me showing up has also been a wonderful surprise. Hoping for a second season. Take care.
Both @cathywilcox and @davpope are consistently just champs. Congratulations and well done to standing upto these organisations. That more and more authors and journalists are stopping these corporations from standing alongside them with impunity is really powerful and inspiring.
For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years."It's gobsmacking."